FNF Turkey & iKV kindly invite you to: THE FUTURE OF TURKEY-EU CUSTOMS UNION DATE: 7 March 2017 VENUE: IKV Brussels Office ADDRESS: Avenue de l'Yser 5-6, 1040 Bruxelles Due to limited number of seats, confirmation of participation is needed. RSVP: Merve Bodur mmervebodur@gmail.com PROGRAMME 12:30 – 13:30          Lunch 13:30 - 14:00          Welcome Speeches Aret Demirici, Project Coordinator, Friedrich Naumann Foundation Turkey Ayhan ZEYTİNOĞLU, Chairman, Economic Development Foundation (IKV) Faruk KAYMAKÇI, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Turkey to the European Union 14:00-16:00             Panel “What is next for Turkey-EU Customs Union?” Moderator:             Prof. Dr. Haluk KABAALİOĞLU, Vice-Chairman, IKV, Jean Monnet Professor of…

The head of TGS branch in Adana Salim BÜYÜKKAYA has been detained following investigation against his newspaper Adana Haber accused of being in relation with FETÖ illegal organisation. The trade unionist-journalist spent 2 days in custody and was released pending trial thanks to TGS pressure. He was released on condition NOT to leave the border of his province. The first hearing of his case is on 10 March 2017 at 09:30, TGS and EFJ-IFJ will be observing the court hearing in Adana.

Organized by: Challenges Project 2013-2016 "Dynamics of relation to social change: contexts, content, producers, public and produsuarios in the news of TVE and YLE" University of Seville, 15-16 and 17 March 2017 with Paco Audije, member of EFJ Broadcasting Expert Group

A l’occasion de la visite à Bruxelles du journaliste canadien Michel C. Auger, l’ambassadeur du Canada à Bruxelles, Olivier Nicoloff, organise le 15 mars un déjeuner avec quelques journalistes. Parmi les thèmes à discuter figurent l’évolution des relations entre le gouvernement et les médias au Canada et en Belgique, le positionnement de la presse traditionnelle vs les médias sociaux et les phénomènes ‘fake news’ et ‘alternative facts’ etc.